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PLANNING A GCSE DANCE COURSE: PLANNING A GCSE DANCE COURSE
What is Essential? (The Specification)
Good Practice
What goes where?
ESSENTIAL: ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE
2 different dance styles
Understanding & applying good studio practice
Technical nature of dance skills
Expressive nature of dance skills
What is high quality dance performance and how do you achieve it?
Presenting work to an audience
Performing the AQA Set Study for assessment.
Performing in a duet or group dance for assessment.
ESSENTIAL: ESSENTIAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Developing a movement vocabulary
Composing Solo and Group Dances
Exploring a variety of resource material and developing movement ideas
Using choreographic devices / forming the dance / appropriate relationships
Communicating artistic intention
Appraising / evaluating throughout the process and on completion
Presenting the dance in performance
Slide4: CHOREOGRAPHY
The Constituent Features:
Aural Setting
Physical Setting
Costume
Choreography of a dance for assessment
Expanded Programme Note for assessment
ESSENTIAL: ESSENTIAL APPRECIATION
Integral part of all elements of the specification
Analysis and interpretation
Professional and their own work.
Should be studied in their historical and social context
Study of a Set Work.
Minimum of four other professional works
Embrace, at least, two different styles
GOOD PRACTICE: GOOD PRACTICE
See live professional dance performances.
Integrate Performance, Choreography and Appreciation.
Write! Dance dictionaries / diaries / note books.
Use the specification and past papers to inform content.
Ensure students perform to audiences.
Give out the assessment criteria.
Role models.
WHAT GOES WHERE?: WHAT GOES WHERE? Performance (Duo / Group) – Coursework
Choreography & EPN – Coursework
Set Study – Examination
Practical Moderation – between mid-March to mid-May (marks two weeks before)
Written Paper – Examination